GAWA Meeting – Oct 2011

On Monday 3rd – Tuesday 4th October 2011, members of the Green Actors of West Africa Network (GAWA), will be meeting in Lakka, near Freetown, Sierra Leone. This is the headquarters of the Environmental Foundation for Africa, which hosts and coordinates the Secretariat of GAWA.

The GAWA network was established in 2005, by a number of leading national environmental organisations in the ECOWAS region. Since then its efforts have been focussed towards building a platform for high level advocacy for sound natural resource management in the national, regional and international contexts. GAWA members are active in all of the ECOWAS countries. 

The meeting this week will provide members of GAWA and other participants, with an invaluable opportunity to review GAWA’s approach and to prioritize action for the next year. In essence, the meeting will provide a platform for strengthened cooperation and collaboration with a view to underpinning not only the positive developments in the region but also to address the significant and emerging challenges related to natural resources management in the national and regional contexts.

The participants are from Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo and UK and include representatives from NGOs, UN agencies, Media Commissions, Academia and  Government. It is expected hat this gathering of committed environmentalists and civil society activists will contribute meaningfully to the discussions and debates that will hopefully enable the network to develop a realistic and achievable activity plan for 2012.